tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7293958323789487599.post5006550029671548067..comments2009-11-14T12:40:44.551-05:00Bryan Polivkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14362867632175767328gbpolivka@gmail.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7293958323789487599.post-50868768917641667962009-11-14T12:40:44.882-05:002009-11-14T12:40:44.882-05:00Great comments, thanks much! --BryanBryan Polivkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14362867632175767328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7293958323789487599.post-49104966530525095552009-11-13T15:48:05.529-05:002009-11-13T15:48:05.529-05:00Bryan - Outstanding article! I could not agree more. In fact, from my perspective I would say that we ARE going there. The &quot;want to be&quot; intellectual elite haven&#39;t figured it out yet. While they still agonize over digital rights management, copyright, content control... the world moves on. Whether they want to accept it or not, it it no longer the Big that Eat The Small.. it is The Fast That Eat The Slow.<br /><br />In my own area, Public Safety Training and Education, there are over 75,000 Google searches per day for online training and/or certification. While bricks and mortar institutions scramble the F-18&#39;s to roll out TEXTBOOKS! - the FAST put together online courses with industry certification. By the time they are ready.. the material is ancient.<br /><br />The other hindrance the traditional model faces is its reliance on things not related to education like dogma, ideology, political correctness, administration, funding, the institution as a social tool, and more...<br /><br />In the end, learning will be delivered as you suggest. The variable is how long it takes to drag these guys kicking and screaming into reality. <br /><br />Along with this evolution,there will necessarily be new methods of evaluating knowledge. The PhD is already proving to be an obstacle in some fields. It means you are too tightly focused and your material is at least 10 year out of date. It does not prove you are &quot;battle worthy&quot; ... nor does it demonstrate your ability to navigate the new paradigm. Competency based exercises will become the norm. And competency testing will be widely outsourced since organizations are often not equipped to measure the very position they offer. Ie.. If you knew what to ask and evaluate in order to hire the best person for the job, then you would have to already be able to understand and execute those functions within your organization. The person with that kind of knowledge, then, would be wasted in an HR role. <br /><br />I think that times have never been this exciting. I can&#39;t wait to go down this road. I&#39;ve waited all of my life for performance to win out over dogma. It seems we are finally there.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08175106452847957968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7293958323789487599.post-82140328028808539972009-11-12T10:14:39.071-05:002009-11-12T10:14:39.071-05:00Bryan - thanks for this. <br />I recently came across a business that adopts certain elements of the intelligent &quot;crowd&quot;- Guaranteach.com. This venture is associated with Innosight, the organizational umbrella for Clayton Christensen&#39;s &quot;Disruptive Innovation&quot; - which also produced the 2008 book, &quot;Disrupting Class&quot;.<br /> http://www.guaranteach.com/Keith Hampsonhttp://highereducationmanagement.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com